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Are there any languages other than C#, Java and maybe Dart that have these features? As soon as you add any kind of metaprogramming or macros to the mix, IDEs
by skocznymroczny 7y ago
Are there any languages other than C#, Java and maybe Dart that have these features?
As soon as you add any kind of metaprogramming or macros to the mix, IDEs start to break, because they can't refactor code that doesn't exist yet. That's an issue for IDEs for C, C++, Rust, D and probably few other languages.
- aasasd 7y ago> Are there any languages other than C#, Java and maybe Dart that have these features? If you're talking about ‘extract method’, any regular imperative language in the C style should have that―possibly as ‘extract function’. I mean also Python, JS, Ruby and the like. The hard part here is to figure out which vars go into the method/function and which of them must be accepted as parameters or returned from the function―that's where the understanding of code structure comes in. Sure, fiddling with metaprogramming will break IDE's understanding of the code, e.g. in Python, but you can do that carefully and isolate the effects so that the rest of code is still ‘clean’. That's also why Java integrates any and all features into the type and OOP system (afaik), so the code can always be described statically. I guess Haskell is an extreme example of that, but not sure how IDE-friendly it is.